Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?:’ Cast, Release Date

Bradley Cooper directed a movie about humongous pop stars followed by one movie about an iconic classical musician. What’s next? Middling stand-up comedy, of course. His upcoming film, Is This Thing On? , sounds like Marriage Story meets Lenny — if the artists depicted in both those movies were approximately 60% less talented. Will Arnett stars as a middle-aged man who starts performing standup comedy to process his divorce. Arnett came up with the idea after meeting British comedian John Bishop at a party and hearing his real-life divorce story, per Vanity Fair . He then took the idea to his longtime friend Cooper (they met through Cooper’s Wet Hot American Summer co-star and Arnett’s ex-wife Amy Poehler), while he was in production on Maestro , and Cooper agreed to